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Dungur Palace is in the Ethiopian village of Aksum—once the bustling capital of an African empire that stretched from southern Egypt to Yemen. The 6th-century mansion contains approximately 50 rooms, including...

This bronze hand was found in Yemen (100-300 CE). The inscription on the hand asks for good fortune for the devotee Ta'lab. This image was taken at the National Museum of Australia in the travelling exhibition A History...

Remains of the Ma'rib Dam, in modern-day Yemen. The oldest known dam in the world, blocking the ravine of Dhana (the Wadi Adanah), it was built under the reign of the Sabean mukarrib Yatha’ Amar Watta I (c. 760-740 BCE). It failed...

The greatest temple in Saba – known as Mahram Bilqis, near the capital of Ma'rib, in modern-day Yemen – was dedicated to Almakah and was revered as a sacred site in the region long after the Sabean Kingdom itself was gone.

Map of the Ayyubid Sultanate at the death of Saladin, 1193 CE, showing its political subdivisions and cities. Borders are approximate only, especially in Yemen and western Arabia.